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Woman: Four burglars have escaped from custody only hours Man: Today I’m going to explain how to make one of my own
after being sentenced to ten years in prison. favourites – I think I enjoy making it as much as eating
They were being transferred from the law courts in it. You need a large tin and I’ll give you a complete list
Manchester to Strangeways Prison. They had been of ingredients at the end.
found guilty of stealing electrical goods and money First of all, beat the butter and sugar together.
from shops in the Manchester area. It is thought that Continue doing this until the mixture begins to look
they were all members of the same gang. pale and fluffy. Then pour in the eggs. Avoid adding the
They escaped from the van in which they were being eggs all at the same time:you should add them slowly
transported when the driver was forced to stop and keep beating all the time.
because of a tree across the road. It is believed that
Next, add the flour, and don’t forget to add the baking
the tree was placed there by other members of the
powder, or you’ll end up with a biscuit rather than
gang, who had been informed of the route to be
a cake.
taken by the van.
A full investigation of the events leading to Now for the fruit. I recommend using sultanas and
the escape has been ordered and anyone with apricots but if you prefer to use dates or raisins, that’s
information is asked to contact the police to help fine. Some people like to add some nuts too but you
with their inquiries. needn’t include them if you prefer not to. If you decide
And now over to Simon for the weather forecast … to use nuts, chop them up small.
Mix everything together and pour the mixture into the
Recording 22 tin. Bake in the oven for about one and a quarter hours.
Remember to check if the fruit cake is ready after
Double X: You wanted to see me, Mrs Seymour? about an hour, as everyone’s oven is slightly different.
Seymour: Yes, come in, Double X. I have an important mission Let the cake cool for about half an hour. If you want
for you. I want you to follow a man and find out all to ice the cake, mix up some icing sugar with water. I
about him. If you find him, I’ll be extremely pleased. suggest adding a little lemon juice as well. Don’t try to
Double X: Who is he? ice the cake until it’s completely cold. If you decide not
Seymour: If I knew that, I wouldn’t be giving you this job! to ice it, just sprinkle some sugar on top.
Here’s a photo of him.
One word of warning, don’t expect to have much fruit
Double X: But this is all out of focus. It’s impossible to tell what
cake left after a couple of hours – it’s delicious. My
he looks like.
family can’t resist it.
Seymour: If we had a better picture, we’d give it to you.
Anyway, we’ve had an anonymous tip-off, so we And now here’s the list of ingredients you need …
know he’s a spy and we know he works in London.
Double X: Didn’t your source tell you who he works for? Recording 24
Seymour: If she’d told us that, I wouldn’t have needed to ask
for your help. Guide: Is everybody here? Good.
Double X: So the source is a woman? Now listen carefully. I hope you’ve all had a good day
Seymour: Yes. She phoned and then sent us this photo today. I wish the weather were better for you. It’s very
through the post. But we couldn’t trace her number. unusual to have so much snow and rain here at this
Double X: That’s bad. It would give me somewhere to start time of year.
if I knew her phone number. It’s a pity we haven’t Some of you were asking about tomorrow. Well, we’re
got a better photo – it’s just a man standing beside going unless the weather gets much worse during
a door. the night. OK? So, provided that it doesn’t snow too
Seymour: It is a bit clearer if you look at it with your eyes half heavily tonight, I’ll see you back here at six o’clock. Set
closed. your alarms for 5.30. We’ll take our breakfast with us
Double X: Hmmm. Wait a minute. There’s a number on the because we won’t reach the top of the mountain unless
door. Forty-two. Oh no! It can’t be. But it is. we set out early, before it’s light.
Seymour: What? What is it?
So be here tomorrow morning with everything you
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Recording 38 Question 4
You hear a couple talking about their hotel.
Examiner: You will hear people talking in eight different
Man: Are you glad we chose this hotel? I rather like it.
situations. For questions 1–8, choose the best answer
Woman: Of course, the room’s great– I like the views over the
(A, B or C).
river. Fancy going for a walk? It’s a lovely sunny day
Question 1 and I could do with some exercise.
You hear a woman telling a friend about a conversation she had Man: Yeah, and we could see what’s on at the cinema
with her parents. tonight while we’re out.
Woman: That’s a good idea, or maybe a concert? I saw
Man: So what happened when you told your parents about
something advertised down in the lobby.
Mark and you getting married?
Man: Let’s have a look, then. And we’ll get lunch while
Woman: Well, I was a bit nervous about it because I haven’t
we’re out, shall we? Breakfast wasn’t very filling –
known him that long. They’ve met him a few times
lots of fresh fruit and strong coffee but no eggs or
but they didn’t seem to get on all that well because
anything.
Mark is really shy so he didn’t say much. But I was
Woman: Mm, that suited me, but it would have been nice to
surprised at their reaction. They said they were
have the choice.
delighted and it was what they’d expected after they
saw us together. In fact, I’d expected them to be really
angry.
Man: Why?
Woman: Because we’ve decided to go and live in Canada and it
means I won’t be able to finish the course I’m doing.
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Speaker 1 Speaker 1
Well, I always like going for a meal with friends. And I’ll go to a My favourite kind of food? Well, I love vegetables and seafood
party if I’m invited. But to be honest, I’m happiest at home. I get – you know, prawns and things like that, and I like food that
in from work quite late, so I just put some music on and cook has a lot of flavour. I also like ginger and spices and a bit of soy
myself something to eat. I don’t watch much television because sauce, so of course I love stir fries. And I’ve never been keen on
I’ve got several hobbies. I paint and draw, which is really relaxing, potatoes, so rice and noodles suit me fine.
and I also collect old postcards and photos. I go to antique fairs
and look in old junk shops and places like that when I get the Speaker 2
chance. And I love catching up on recent films too – I’ve got a I love hot spicy food with chilli in it, and sauces made with
big collection of DVDs, so I’ll watch one of those or download tomatoes, onions and peppers. And I enjoy eating the meat they
something. I’m certainly never bored! cook like beef, pork or chicken. The food is based on corn, rather
than wheat, and I absolutely adore the tortillas. The stews with
Speaker 2 beans are good too.
What do I do after work? I like to get together with friends
mostly. We sometimes go round to someone’s flat if there’s a big Speaker 3
match on, and we cook together or get a takeaway and then sit Me? Well, I just love fish and chicken cooked in the oven and
down and watch the match. But we’d rather go out if we get the sauces made with herbs and tomatoes or with cheese on top.
chance. We go clubbing once a week, we go to the cinema, that I absolutely adore all kinds of pasta, and one of my favourite
sort of thing. And in the summer we get outside – we go to the things is olives – I like the large green ones best.
beach, go swimming and surfing, have a barbecue. I don’t spend
a lot of time in, but I do sometimes stay at home and play online Recording 50
games with a couple of my mates , and I tend to read a book
rather than watch TV – well, unless there’s sport on, that is. Examiner: You will hear a talk by an art student about an
Australian artist called Anna Roberts. For questions
1–10, complete the sentences with a word or short
Recording 48 phrase.
I only moved to this city recently and I think I’m going to like Well, I’ve chosen an artist called Anna Roberts as the subject of
it. I live on a housing estate in a residential area which is on the my talk. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1989 and she’s the
outskirts. It’s a mixture of houses and flats but there’s lots of granddaughter of Edith James, who was a well-known sculptor
space around the buildings and some lovely parks. I work in an in her day. Anyway, Anna is rapidly becoming one of Australia’s
office block on a small industrial estate which is in a business best-known young artists. But unlike many other artists of
district only about ten minutes’ drive from where I live. The city her generation, she doesn’t paint urban scenes. Instead she’s
centre is about three kilometres from my house in the other established a reputation for painting pictures of very remote
direction. There’s a huge shopping mall there with every shop locations, far from towns and roads, and understandably, getting
you’d ever want. I usually cycle to the city centre because there to them can be very challenging for her.
are cycle lanes everywhere so it’s a really pleasant ride. But it’s She sometimes treks to them on foot, but if that’s impossible,
also easy to drive because there are several multi-storey car she’ll travel by plane – provided there’s somewhere to land, of
parks in the centre. I used to live in a different city with a historic course. There’s no way you could get to them by car or truck.
centre which meant it was almost impossible to drive there. I think she’s had a few narrow escapes over the years, but
Also, because it’s surrounded by hills, there wasn’t much space surprisingly, that hasn’t put her off. You see, the subject of all her
and most people live in big apartment blocks in the suburbs paintings is nature and she wants to show just how spectacular
on the edge of the city. My flat had a great view but you live it is. For that reason, she has to experience it herself, even if it
with other people’s noise all the time and I got tired of that, so I does involve some danger on occasion, like running out of water,
decided to have a change. And the area was a bit neglected – it or climbing over rocks. She definitely doesn’t mind taking risks.
hadn’t had any money spent on it for years. My life is easier here.
Now, I’ve been to several of her exhibitions, and there’s certainly
nothing abstract about the landscape paintings she does.
One art critic said recently that many of her pictures could be
mistaken for photographs because they’re so realistic, and if you
look at the paintings she does of beaches, I can see why. I saw
one recently with the surf beating down on the rocks, and you
really feel as if you’re right there at the scene. She uses so many
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Speaker 1
Well, I have to say that I’m really enthusiastic about the course
I’m doing now. I’ve heard a lot of people say that when you do
an arts course like this you spend too much time studying on
your own, and they are totally against students having to plan
their own time. But in my view, you’ve got to spend lots of
time reading and thinking things through if you’re doing this
sort of degree, and I enjoy that, so I approve of the timetable. I
personally think the lectures are very good – we have them four
mornings a week, and then we get reading lists. Every week we
look at several authors, playwrights or poets from a particular
period and have to write essays and prepare presentations
for our fortnightly seminars. If you’ve got strong opinions on
something, you can put them across then, or when you go to
your weekly tutorials. I believe it’s a very good way of learning if
you’re well-motivated and good at organising your time.
Speaker 2
I found my course really difficult at first, because we start
every day with three different lectures. There’s just so much
new information to take in all the time, and then we spend all
afternoon in the laboratory doing experiments. It’s all about test
tubes and observing how different substances react and behave.
But this is my second term, and now I’m convinced that the
system really works. I’ve learnt a huge amount in a short time, so
I really appreciate having the lectures each morning. I don’t have
a lot of free time, but we don’t have to write long essays yet –
I’m in favour of concentrating on the experiments for now - just
writing them up and drawing conclusions.
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